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Boston ballot shortages caused by simple math mistake, official says
By adamg on Thu, 12/12/2024 - 9:15am
The Dorchester Reporter reports longtime election official Sabino Piemonte took the blame for the way precincts across the city ran out of ballots on Election Day: In figuring out how many ballots each precinct should get, he mistakenly subtracted the number of early-voting ballots from precincts' anticipated numbers twice. Still unanswered: What to do about City Hall not answering calls from ballot-short precincts.
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Everything with numbers needs double-checking
People make mistakes. Many of those mistakes can be caught if a second person takes a look. Which is why in my workplace where all people working with numbers have graduate degrees, we require that everything official must be checked by another senior person.